About this project

Improvisation is at the core of creativity, collaboration and conversation—all social life, really—and yet it remains a mystery to most people. The Improvisers is a multimedia project that combines documentary methods, ethnography, qualitative research, journalism and digital media production into an online package emphasizing visual storytelling as a means for understanding and questioning the value of improvisation in everyday life.

This project was submitted to the faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Content and production by Phil Daquila.

 

Thesis Committee:
Laura Ruel, Assistant Professor, Journalism, UNC (Chair)
Pat Davison, Associate Professor, Journalism, UNC
David P. Cline, Acting Director, Southern Oral History Project, Center for the Study of the American South, UNC

Special thanks to Chris Carmichael, Daniel Siler, the members of my committee and to everyone who agreed to an interview.

Additional thanks to:

David Alexander	Renee Alexander Craft	Jay Heinz	Mike Schmidt
Jay Almers	Sandy Daquila	Heidi Hennink-Kaminski	Chad A. Stevens
Malena Amusa	Janice Daquila-Pardo	Anne Johnston	Fred Thompson
Cindy Anderson	Stephany DeAngelis	Mike Komives	Ruth Walden
Rich Beckman	Malcolm Dougall	Alice Lutman	Malcolm White
Mario Bolaños	Morgan Ellis	Eileen Mignoni	David Whitehead
Lois Boynton	Frank Fee	Matt Pardo	Don Wittekind
Brian Cohen	Ben George	Susie Post-Rust	Kennedy Yanko
Nacho Corbella	Selket Guzman	Chris Roush	Kyle York